Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our World Picture Books a teenager growing up in

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Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our World Picture Books a teenager growing up inBy one of the worlds leading chemists, an entertaining and revealing tour of the chemical bonds that shape our everyday lives and provide the infrastructure for our chaotic world. We all have a relationship with chemistry. Bonds between molecules, forged and broken in the blink of an eye, underpin everything from the food we eat and the clothes we wear to the ways we treat illnesses and construct our homes. Its a relationship we nurture, whether we